Practitioner Psychologist

NHS; Leek; On-site; GBP 58,000; Full time

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join Elysium Healthcare as a Practitioner Psychologist at their Ballington House facility in Leek, Staffordshire. You will be responsible for providing high-quality psychological interventions and assessments to support the complex mental health needs of the women in their care. The role offers a competitive salary of up to £57,220 per annum and a range of attractive benefits to support your professional and personal development.

Main duties of the job

As a Practitioner Psychologist, you will be responsible for conducting individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, and contributing to multidisciplinary team working and risk assessments. You will also facilitate staff reflective practice sessions and design and deliver training. The role requires experience and knowledge in managing a service user's caseload, including assessing complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatments to support their care plans.

Job responsibilities

Reporting directly to the Regional Consultant Psychologist, you will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working and risk assessments. You will also facilitate staff reflective practice sessions and be requested to design and deliver training.

As a Psychologist, you will have experience and knowledge in carrying a service user’s caseload, including assessing complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatments to support their care plans.

As a Psychologist you will be:

• Participating in the assessment of referrals, and to provide initial assessment service users referred to the service.
• Undertaking high quality direct (assessment & therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory, and evaluative) specialist psychological interventions and making autonomous clinical decisions.
• Working therapeutically with service users with complex presentations, undertake the assessments using a broad range of structured psychometric and semi-structured clinical methods.
• Formulating and implementing plans of specialist psychological treatment or management of patients’ mental health needs based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence based best practice.
• Being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical work and care.
• Maintaining high standards of care in all areas of practice and in accordance with the HCPC Code of Conduct, professional guidelines and Company Policies and Procedures.

To be successful in this role, you'll need to:

• Be HCPC registered
• Have understanding of evidence-based psychological practice
• Have experience of applying psychological knowledge of similar setting
• Be experienced working with clients with cognitive deficits
• Have previous experience of conducting research and project working

Where you will be working:

Location: Ballington Gardens, Leek, Staffordshire ST13 5LW. You will be working at Ballington House, a 10 bedded mental health rehabilitation hospital that provides services for women with complex mental health needs. The environment at Ballington House is a unique aspect of the service with care provided in one of six apartments which offer single and two-person accommodation. You will work alongside a multidisciplinary team to support women who often have complex mental health and co-morbid conditions.

What you will get:

• Annual salary of up to £57,220
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To be successful in this role, you must be HCPC registered, have an understanding of evidence-based psychological practice, experience of applying psychological knowledge in a similar setting, experience working with clients with cognitive deficits, and previous experience of conducting research and project work.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.